Latin America’s Pink Tide

Current governments in Latin America – not quite red and hardly cresting the wave – are discovering that policies of redistribution, for which they were elected, now have limits

by William I Robinson

The triumph of left-leaning former army officer Ollanta Humala in Peru’s presidential elections in June may mean that Peru is the latest Pink Tide country. The Pink Tide refers to the turn to the left not quite red and not quite a wave in several Latin American countries. The neoliberal model (...)